@liquidm3th69 Are you certain of that, that Epic store doesn't launch the game until the 11th? Why is that.

UPDATE: Surprise, surprise - it's crashed AGAIN.

I believe it keeps crashing on the "character creation screen". But I can't be too sure because the screen doesn't load properly, it just shows a little boy fighting in the dark.

Anyone got anything, spent most of my day trying to get this to work.

Thank f*** im on lockdown

@alhitch87 mine doesnt even let me click it on epic games. I preinstalled and just says it will be available 11/10 um....doesnt let me click it to make anything happen and has a do not enter symbol next to the date. odd.

@alhitch87 As described above, I reinstalled it on drive C. 
Afterwards switch off G-Hub (Logitech software). Maybe other third party manufacturers are playing into this. 
As someone has described above, XBox controllers probably also cause problems.

@hotyogii This is the first scene

@luzi88alkor
Have reinstalled on C Drive - no luck.
No controllers are turned on or linked whilst trying to get the game running.
No crashing now, but when I boot it up it immediately closes itself down.
Have made exceptions in protection software for it - no luck

Have made exceptions in protection software for it - no luck

Exceptions don't work for me. I have to shut protection down.

With protection on I don't get any alerts, just splash screen, black screen, back to desktop.

With protection shut down the game starts and runs fine.

Yesterday the game could be started, today this message: 

"The execution of the code cannot be continued because msvcp140.dll was not found." 

(Literally translated from German.)

It's getting better and better The solution is to download the file in question and reinstall it in the system. I have never had such problems with any game. Thanks Ubi for the great work!

So it runs again after I fixed "Microsoft Software Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015".

@luzi88alkor thats good news! I ended up doing this as well but it didn't seem to work for me. I did end up solving the problem by swapping out my gpu (was using a 5700xt, swapped for rx580), but I am guessing a lot of people don't have that option.

@chay_mo I dont have that option sadly.

Ill try what @Luzi88Alkor did with the redistributable - tried everything else other than a reinstall of Windows. I can't even get it to stay open

@luzi88alkor Didn't work for me sadly

@volter666 thanks a ton, This vid helped me run it.. once Once closes I am back to not being able to .. run it

@volter666 thanks a ton, This vid helped me run it.. once Once closes I am back to not being able to .. run it

Same boat my friend - its loads the ac valhalla logo and then immediately closes down

This is what has it working for me:

1. Set Ubisoft Connect to run as administrator. (Right click shortcut, properties, compatibility tab)
2. Set both ACValhalla.exe and ACValhalla_Plus.exe to run as administrator.
3. Added entire Ubisoft folder to exceptions in anti-malware.
4. Separately added Assassins' Creed Valhalla folder to exceptions in anti-malware.

I no longer have to shut down protection.

FWIW my folders are all on C:.

@luzi88alkor i contacted the support and told them the visual c++ was the cause of my issues and they told me to reinstall the game so, kinda sucks still same issue for me even now.

@clump63 SO that would make your AV software the issue..not Ubisoft or the game.

@dbgager

Sort of. I only have the problem with the 2 very new Ubisoft titles. Also have to run them as administrator.

@luzi88alkor I actually reinstalled windows and it didnt work. It is sooo sad ...